PS101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Tabula Rasa, B. F. Skinner, Mind
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Process by which experience produces a relatively change in behaviour or capabilities (knowing how; performance) Examined processes by which experience influences behaviour. Discovered laws of learning that apply to virtually all organisms. Individuals are born without built in mental content and that all knowledge comes from experience . Explained learning solely in terms of directly observable events. Learning is a product of events that occur in our environment. Learn due to things that change or stay consistent in our environment. Based on internal responses to naturally occurring stimuli. Ex. reaction from sucking on a lemon. Some things we encounter in the world naturally elicit a response in us. When we pair things that don"t have a value, or have a different value with naturally occurring pairings, the value free or differently valued item will come to take on a new meaning. Stimulus that elicits a reflexive or innate, unconditioned response (ucr) without prior learning.